Sheridan Township
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Sheridan Township is a rural civil township located within Poweshiek County in the U.S. state of Iowa.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sheridan Township canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2045067 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sheridan Township Context triple: [Poweshiek County, Iowa, containsSettlement, Sheridan Township]
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A.
Redford Township
Redford Township is a suburban community in southeastern Michigan that borders the city of Detroit and functions largely as a residential area within the Detroit metropolitan region.
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B.
Dorr Township
Dorr Township is a civil township and primarily rural community located in Allegan County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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C.
Fillmore Township
Fillmore Township is a civil township located within Allegan County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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D.
Martin Township
Martin Township is a small civil township located within Allegan County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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E.
Valley Township
Valley Township is a small local governmental subdivision located within Allegan County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sheridan Township Target entity description: Sheridan Township is a rural civil township located within Poweshiek County in the U.S. state of Iowa.
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A.
Redford Township
Redford Township is a suburban community in southeastern Michigan that borders the city of Detroit and functions largely as a residential area within the Detroit metropolitan region.
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B.
Dorr Township
Dorr Township is a civil township and primarily rural community located in Allegan County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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C.
Fillmore Township
Fillmore Township is a civil township located within Allegan County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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D.
Martin Township
Martin Township is a small civil township located within Allegan County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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E.
Valley Township
Valley Township is a small local governmental subdivision located within Allegan County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil township
ⓘ
township in Iowa ⓘ |
| appliesLegalSystem |
Iowa law
ⓘ
United States law ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasGovernmentType | civil township ⓘ |
| hasJurisdictionLevel | local government ⓘ |
| hasLandUse | rural ⓘ |
| hasRuralCharacter | true ⓘ |
| isPartOfCountyGovernment | Poweshiek County government ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Poweshiek County, Iowa ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Poweshiek County ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| locatedInState | Iowa ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | North America ⓘ |
| partOf |
Poweshiek County, Iowa
ⓘ
Iowa ⓘ
surface form:
State of Iowa
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| subdivisionName1 | Poweshiek County ⓘ |
| subdivisionName2 | Iowa ⓘ |
| subdivisionName3 |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| subdivisionType | township ⓘ |
| subdivisionType1 | county ⓘ |
| subdivisionType2 | state ⓘ |
| subdivisionType3 | country ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Sheridan Township Description of subject: Sheridan Township is a rural civil township located within Poweshiek County in the U.S. state of Iowa.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.